Bomb scare in Delta Cabinet Office Complex, Asaba

Asaba – An objected, suspected to be an improvised explosive device (IED), was on Tuesday planted at the gate of the Delta State Cabinet Office, Asaba, where the office of the state’s Head of Service is located.

An authoritative source in the office in Asaba said that the device was first noticed by a sanitation worker cleaning the area.

The source said that the sanitation worker alerted the security men in the complex, who in turn alerted some of the senior staff of the office, who had reported early to work.

The source further said that the staff of the office later called in the police and the anti-bomb squad to handle the device, which was covered in a red cloth and had a stop watch fastened to it.

Meanwhile staff of the office, who were too scared to enter into the office premises, summed up courage to go into their offices at about 10 a.m., while some went back to their homes.

Reacting to the development, the Commissioner of Police in Delta, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba, said that the device was not an explosive device and that the planting of the device in the Cabinet Office was the handiwork of mischief makers.

Aduba, who was in company of the visiting Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police zone V, Alhaji Hashimu Arugungu, took the device to the Government House, where he said that it was only a plot to scare people.